Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0414T

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

29 May 2009

 



29 May 2009

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP PLC ANNOUNCES 

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 29 May 2009 all the resolutions set out in the Company's Notice of Meeting to shareholders dated 16 February 2009 were proposed and duly passed.

Full details of the resolutions passed as special business, together with copies of the Articles of Association, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority for publication through the Listing Authority's Document and Viewing Facility.

Voting on each resolution was conducted by way of a poll. The Company's issued share capital on 29 May 2009 was 285,716,474. Each share carried one vote. Details of the votes cast are set out below:

Resolution (No. as noted on proxy form)	Shares For	Shares Discretionary	Shares against	Shares Marked As Votes Withheld / Abstentations
1 Receipt of financial statements	168,444,287	8,530,853	29,840	668,767
2  Approval of Remuneration Report	157,224,433	8,541,168	1,906,037	10,002,300
3  Declaration of final dividend	168,471,157	8,531,403	19,159	652,028
4a Re-election of Jennifer Laing	166,420,211	8,548,079	2,011,347	694,110
4b Re-election of Jonathan Linen	168,063,951	8,545,283	368,253	697,241
4c Re-election of Richard Solomons	168,091,812	8,545,469	338,344	698,122
5 Reappointment of Auditors	163,422,044	8,540,920	3,697,567	2,013,190
6 Authority to set auditors' remuneration	165,177,809	8,540,377	3,272,106	683,429
7 Political donations	167,230,182	8,526,117	1,064,445	852,951
8 Allotment of shares	160,449,538	8,572,995	7,925,225	725,989
9 Disapplication of pre-emption rights	158,966,258	8,563,518	9,382,686	760,745
10 Authority to purchase own shares	168,292,497	8,537,013	137,127	709,824
11 Articles of Association and the Companies Act 2006	168,069,493	8,559,108	327,360	717,444
12 Notice of General Meetings	147,104,641	8,553,209	21,332,896	682,026

For further information, please contact:

Investor Relations (Heather Wood; Catherine Dolton):	[phone]
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Notes to Editors: 

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON: IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, more than 4,200 hotels and over 620,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites®, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club® Rewards with over 43 million members worldwide.

IHG has nearly 1,700 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 140,000 jobs over the next few years.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.

IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit our online Press Office at www.ihg.com/media.

 

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